Posted on 07/21/2015 12:18:03 PM PDT by Rummyfan
When traveling through Europe accompanied by a copy of Martin Gilbert’s magisterial one-volume biography, “Churchill: A Life,” you cannot ignore the parallels between today and the 1930s. With the enemies of freedom prowling along on the periphery of civilization and the economy wobbling, the West once again finds itself at an existential crossroads. This time, there is no Winston Churchill to set us upon the road toward victory.
Europe is different from when I first lived there in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was not as superficially wealthy then, although this time I rarely wandered far from where the tourists congregate. On the outside, at least, you would hardly see the rot of debt and welfare-state mismanagement even in Italy and Spain. The people were well dressed. The cafés were expensive but still packed. The cars are fairly new and have shockingly little body damage, when you consider the insanity that overtakes Europeans when they slide behind a steering wheel.
But that’s on the surface. Once you get behind the walls and into interior of the homes, the old cramped shabbiness is still there. All their money goes to clothes, food, and drink, because there’s no room in European apartments for the stuff Americans pack into theirs.
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Netanyahu is the Churchill of our age.
And who's sounding the alarm on this side of the Atlantic? No one...that's who. America's President is too busy selling out his country and too interested in aiding and abetting her enemies to care but you would think someone in government would care.
It is not and has never been his country. He is a metastizing cancer with eighteen more months to inflict enough damage to kill his host. Hence all the rush. I have to date not heard a sound explanation of how this bastard child of Kenya and Indonesia was ever given an American passport much less the keys to the White House.
Churchill was a “war monger” in the 1930s; yes, and dismissed on that basis. Bibi gets similar treatment today . . . until.
I guess if my name were Kurt Schlichter I’d probably go around accusing people of being Nazis too ...
Any relation to Art?
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